"The cycle lanes are stuffed, so there is a separate issue of increasing capacity on the cycle lanes."

But cycling groups have hit out at the proposals, saying that if designated lanes were properly maintained, there would be no need for the laws.

Paul Corcoran of the Dublin Cycling Campaign told Dublin Live: "The facilities provided are below quality and of poor design. The current cycle lanes - which are just painted lines on the side of a road - aren't particularly safe.

"If there was proper cycle lanes, people would use them. In Copenhagen, where there's two or three hundred kilometers of quality lanes that people use, you can see that they don't need these laws."

It's reported that the RSA report will be submitted to the Minister for Transport in the next few weeks.